Sounds Storytime for Babies, Wednesday, February 3 @ 10:30



Books:
Quiet, Loud by Leslie Patricelli. I love ALL Patricelli's books and this one is perfect for showing quiet and LOUD!

Snappy Sounds, one of those noisy board books by Harwood, I introduced: "Now we will be quiet again and read a book. Reading books is such a nice, quiet thing to do." The moms really did get quiet at that point -- so that you could almost hear the barking and meowing and cheeping noises that came from this silly book -- except since when do bunnies go B-o-i-n-g? I skipped that page. The text is cute and rhymy.

Gooble Gooble Mooooo Tractor Book by Jez Alborough.  Might need to shorten a bit for the very young ones, but Alzborough's created a perfect amalgamation here of animal sounds and machine sounds.

Peek-a-Boo by Marie Torres Cimarusti.  This is a very nice peekaboo book about simple, unscary Halloween creatures: an unscary witch, an unscary skeleton, an unscary ghost, etc.  

 Songs:
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with my little pitch pipe is wonderful.
Pizza Pickle Pumpernickel 


Oooooweeee! How many babies did we have today! A lot!
But I think everyone still had a good time!


Some people had a chance to read a book in the middle of the craziness.

Some people even found the insanity relaxing.



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